Huawei to release an Android-Windows Phone dual-OS smartphone in the US next quarter

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13 Mar 2014, 07:40posted on

Huawei's CMO of devices, Shao Yang, confirmed that a dual-OS handset "will be on sale in the US in Q2”, and revealed that the company is "definitely looking at other platforms" in the meantime. “Compared to Android, the priority of Windows Phone is much lower, but is still one of our choices of OS. We are definitely using a multi-OS strategy, as in Android and Windows together." - revealed the CMO, proclaiming that ”dual OS can be a new choice for the consumer...”

More like Microsoft is the one that is worried. Its expected that Android is suppose to sell around a billion smart phones in 2014. That's before Microsoft's Nokia announced 3 Android phones with a UI similar to WP. Microsoft wants to use the Android name to generate sales and revenue, because clearly not only the world can see, but microsoft can also see that WP is not up for the job. Look at sales of 8.8 million WP devices last quarter, and that's down from the previous quarter. Android has rose every quarter since it came out, and sold 226 million devices in the same quarter. Microsoft needs Android more then Android needs Microsoft.
Look at tablet sales for last year, 120 million Android tablets were sold last year, 70 million apple, 4 million Windows. To this day you still can't use WP apps on any Windows tablet. That won't come till 2015.
So I think you meant to say that Microsoft is worried, and has to use the competition in order to make money.

What exactly would be the point of that? There is nothing WP can do that Android can't already do...

The only reason anyone would even CONSIDER a WP is if it's a Nokia with a good camera, or they are heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem. Both of which are null in this case since 1) It's Huawei not Nokia, and 2) If they can be heavily invested in Microsoft's ecosystem (which cost a bomb), I'm sure they could already afford a Nokia instead.

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